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Cloris Leachman has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Young Frankenstein.
The Air Up There
1994
Family · Comedy

I Can Only Imagine
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Netflix · Included

The Croods: A New Age
2020 · Movie · Voice
Top 30%Peacock · Included

Raising Hope
2010 · Series · Actor
Top 37%Hulu · Included

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 38%MGM+ · Included

Dillinger
1973 · Movie · Actor
Top 54%Prime Video · Included

Music of the Heart
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 55%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Dir. Brad Bird · With Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel

High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges

Growing up in Greenville, Texas, Bart Millard suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his father, Arthur. When Arthur becomes terminally ill, he finds redemption by embracing his faith and rediscovering his love for his son. Years later, Bart's troubled childhood and mended relationship with his dad inspires him to write the hit song "I Can Only Imagine" as singer of the Christian band MercyMe.
Dir. Jon Erwin, Andrew Erwin · With J. Michael Finley, Madeline Carroll, Dennis Quaid

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart

Searching for a safer habitat, the prehistoric Crood family discovers an idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all of its needs. Unfortunately, they must also learn to live with the Bettermans -- a family that's a couple of steps above the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. As tensions between the new neighbors start to rise, a new threat soon propels both clans on an epic adventure that forces them to embrace their differences, draw strength from one another, and survive together.
Dir. Joel Crawford · With Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn

James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but well-intentioned family for support in raising the child.
Dir. Greg Garcia · With Lucas Neff, Martha Plimpton, Garret Dillahunt

Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.
Dir. Christopher Landon · With Tye Sheridan, Sarah Dumont, Logan Miller

A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman
Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.
Dir. Penelope Spheeris · With Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
Dir. John Milius · With Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett

as Aunt Agatha / Aunt Sofia
On Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capitalist aunt's greedy clutches. Magic abounds and they meet mysterious new friends along the way.
Dir. Stuart Margolin · With Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Cloris Leachman

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, James Cromwell

Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer and decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.
Dir. John D. Hancock · With Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Sam Elliott, John Duda

The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk, and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night. When a more evolved caveman named Guy arrives on the scene, Grug is distrustful, but it soon becomes apparent that Guy is correct about the impending destruction of their world.
Dir. Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders · With Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds

Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.
Dir. Dick Clair, Norman Lear, Jenna McMahon · With Cloris Leachman, Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields

An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
Dir. Taylor Hackford · With Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito

During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.
Dir. Jay Chandrasekhar · With Erik Stolhanske, Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme

as Old Woman On Plane and Bus (voice) · Voice
Paramount+ · Included
Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.
Dir. Mike Judge · With Mike Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore

An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
Dir. Michael Hoffman · With Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
Dir. Vincent McEveety · With Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith, John Vernon

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.
Dir. James L. Brooks · With Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega

Writer Alex Sheldon must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if that happens, angry Mafia types to whom he owes money will come looking for him. In order to expedite things, Alex hires typist Emma Dinsmore and begins dictating his novel. The book is about a doomed love affair between a character similar to Alex and a character named Polina Delacroix. But, as Alex falls for Emma, his work takes a different turn.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, Sophie Marceau
Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake as two males and one aggressive female crocodile, which is protecting her nest, wreak havoc on the locals.
Dir. David Flores · With John Schneider, Sam McMurray, Sarah Lafleur

as Queen Gnorga (voice) · Voice
A friendly troll with a magic green thumb grows one flower too many for the queen, whose laws require all trolls to be mean ugly and scare humans whenever possible. As a punishment, he is exiled to a world of concrete, where he should live a life of proper trolldom: Manhattan.
Dir. Gary Goldman, Don Bluth · With Dom DeLuise, Phillip Glasser, Tawny Sunshine Glover

Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
Dir. Diane Keaton · With Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
Dir. Diane English · With Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing
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